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Epistemology
EPISTEMOLOGY. This branch of philosophy studies the nature, origin, and validity of knowledge; it is sometimes called &#x0022;theory of knowledge.&#x0022; Epistemology has been central to...
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Epistemology
The term epistemology is used with two separate meanings according to different cultural traditions. In English-speaking countries, epistemology denotes the philosphical theory of knowled...
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Causal or Conditional or Explanatory-Relation Accounts
Edmund Gettier attacked the traditional analysis of knowledge by showing that inferring a true belief from a false but justified belief produces ...
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Criteriology
&#x0022;Science of criteria&#x0022; or &#x0022;criteriology&#x0022; is a term, originally neoscholastic, for a theory of knowledge in which judgments are warranted or justified simply by ...
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Epistemology, Circularity In
Issues concerning circularity figure prominently in epistemology, finding a place in discussions of topics ranging from the Cartesian circle, to the problem of the criteri...
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Epistemology
Epistemology attempts to explain the nature and scope of knowledge and rational belief. Its purview also includes formulating and assessing arguments for skeptical conclusions that we do ...
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Epistemology, History of [addendum]
Knowledge (&#x02BF;ilm) has occupied a central place in the Islamic intellectual tradition. The religious incentive for this stems from the fact that the Islamic be...
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Epistemology, History Of
Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is that branch of philosophy which is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge, its presuppositions and basis, and the genera...
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Epistemology, Religious [addendum]
The most significant development in religious epistemology at the beginning of the new millennium was the completion of Alvin Plantinga&#x0027;s trilogy on warrant a...
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Internalism Versus Externalism
Internalism in epistemology is a thesis about the nature of epistemic normativity, or the sort of normativity that is involved in the evaluation of cognition. Specifical...
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Pragmatist Epistemology
William James&#x0027;s observation that &#x0022;when &#x2026; we give up the doctrine of objective certitude, we do not thereby give up the quest or hope of truth itself&#x0022...
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